before I forget
I wanted to mention two, no, four things about banff.
1) I had a good chat with someone back and forth by re-writing our iTunes names. We evaluated each others music collection. I was inspired by Julian Bleeker - who talked about getting into an altercation with a neighboor through communicating via their respective wireless networks’ SSID’s.
2) I have felt the future. I was only outside wifi coverage during a short hike on one day. Everywhere I went had wifi and I brought my laptop almost everywhere. It was an incredibly different feeling than montreal. Montreal feels like “where can I get online”. My day revolves around (in some part) places where I can get my fix. In Banff it was simply “When should I go online?”. Actually, it felt like I wasn’t really offline. More like just looking away from the screen for a bit.
3) I went to a Sarah Diamond party. One of the last. It had a pretty big buildup, but I was definitely not dissapointed.
4) I realized (again) that I have no connection to the 70% of blogging that occurs. The livejournal stuff. I was reading someone’s old blog on one of those sites, and it was hard to recognize it as blogging. It seemed more like some kind of forum. Even visually it had no similarities.
5) Not about Banff. I’m really sorry I missed this conference (in quebec), and I’m really excited to follow this (open source quebec gov website) and this(Steph’s new travel blog).
June 1st, 2005 at 4:34 pm
1) yay for iTunes chatting! geeks will always find a way. yay for judging people based on musical preference too.
2) it’s surreal here in Banff, isn’t it? I love it. I feel all antsy when I’m sleeping and my laptop is off cause I can’t check my email. weird.
3) Sara Diamond’s infamous parties… You are one of the special people that can say they have attended.
4) so you say the personal blogging is “different” but you make no actual judgement. What did you think of this mysterious “someone’s” old blog? It’s not recognizable as blogging to you, but do you think it’s helpful, entertaining, lacking substance, wasteful, annoying? This is what I’m interested in.
5) No banff? I’m out then. :)
see ya!
June 1st, 2005 at 6:50 pm
2) sleeping makes you antsy because you’re offline? I love it!
3) yes. Yes I am.
4)first of all, the mysterious person should include the link (when posting) to her own blog since she has one. I didn’t think much of the older blog that you she had because it was so obviously directed to another group of people that it said very little to me. I didn’t think that it was bad, but it didn’t interest me.
However, your current blog is much more interesting and accessible. I thought there was something different about your current blog, but I couldn’t put my finger on it until now. Each post is an update since the last one. It’s very journal style in it’s aspiration to be continuous (contiguous?). You rarely post about one topic, one idea. Many of your posts have a focus, but they also include “and this”’s.
That’s not a criticism. It’s different, and can be refreshing.